I do remember an instance that set an alarm where the CEO of a startup I was newly hired at years ago, in a tech meeting, vented the idea of charging people's credit cards for more than a month of subscription hoping they wouldn't notice because the single amount was low.
We were all flabbergasted and refused to do it.
The startup closed shop a few months later because, as far as I know, the CEO allegedly committed fraud in other ways.
Another example, which is not illegal and probably ethical strictly speaking but still worries me: in Android there's an API which nobody tells users about where you can read the list of all the apps someone has installed. I've been asked to prepare the backend to store that info and I did it.
There's a LOT of info you can understand about a customer by silently analysing which apps they have installed on their phone.
I wish Android would remove that API, iOS doesn't have it.
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I do remember an instance that set an alarm where the CEO of a startup I was newly hired at years ago, in a tech meeting, vented the idea of charging people's credit cards for more than a month of subscription hoping they wouldn't notice because the single amount was low.
We were all flabbergasted and refused to do it.
The startup closed shop a few months later because, as far as I know, the CEO allegedly committed fraud in other ways.
Another example, which is not illegal and probably ethical strictly speaking but still worries me: in Android there's an API which nobody tells users about where you can read the list of all the apps someone has installed. I've been asked to prepare the backend to store that info and I did it.
There's a LOT of info you can understand about a customer by silently analysing which apps they have installed on their phone.
I wish Android would remove that API, iOS doesn't have it.